Yeah, usually the first thing I've notice is that when you RDP to a system and 
it kicks you back to the logon screen with no error, but no connect.  You can 
go back to the server and log on just fine, and a reboot would clear the 
problem.  On file servers we also get people that start to get strange "out of 
quota" messages, but then they can reconnect in a minute and things work.

Am I correct in reading this is a WS03 issue and not WS08?  There is no newer 
ISCSI initiator (yet) for WS08.  We finally have our new Equallogic PS6000s 
online with a new WS08 failover cluster using MPIO and I want to make sure this 
isn't going to affect us.

-Bonnie

From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: For those that use multipathing solutions with your servers NON 
Paged memory pool leak

There are also issues with HP and probably the other major vendors in this 
space. There was a bug in the MS library they are all linked to.

A lot of things can happen aside from that symptom below when you run out of 
nonpaged pool. A good indicator is if you see the SRV events (2019 or 202, I 
forget which one) saying you're out. Machines can hang, apps can stop working, 
etc.

Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com

c - 312.731.3132

Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/
Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian

From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 6:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: For those that use multipathing solutions with your servers NON Paged 
memory pool leak

All,

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/317378.htm
http://blogs.technet.com/andym/archive/2008/12/04/powerpath-5-2-and-mpio-causing-npp-leak.aspx

The culprit in EMC land is the 5.2 and 5.2 SP1 PowerPath Drivers ( MPIO.sys of 
1.22.3790.2358) and the EMCMPIO.sys of 5.2.1.6 (5.2 SP1)

The fix: Move up to EMC multipath drivers Version 5.3 which will load 
Microsoft's MPIO.sys updated to 1.23.3790.2451 which seems for the time being 
to address the Non-Page Memory Pool leak, this was driving one of my Exchange 
2003 SP2 2-node clusters insane over the last few months, it was discovered if 
the NON-Paged Memory counter you see on the Task manager gets about 106-108MB 
for a X86 32bit system, the http service for the Exchange Cluster will fail, 
and cause the Exchange group to fail because the resource is marked to affect 
the group.

HTH with some folks out there,

Z


Edward Ziots
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network +
ezi...@lifespan.org<mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org>
Phone:401-639-3505










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